The DGCA has issued a critical show-cause notice to IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers, outlining serious operational failures that led to widespread flight disruptions.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has placed IndiGo’s top leadership under direct scrutiny, issuing a sharply worded show cause notice to CEO Pieter Elbers over the airline’s massive nationwide disruptions. The regulator’s notice, issued on Saturday, laid out in detail the specific failures it believed led to the crisis.

The regulator has pulled up IndiGo for four major categories of violations:

1. Failure to prepare for new crew duty rules (FDTL)

According to the DGCA, the “primary cause” of the meltdown was IndiGo’s inability to prepare for the revised Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) regime.

The notice sta

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